There is a growing trend across the Nation: Small Farming Homesteads.
Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable.
But for farm entrepreneurs, the opportunities for a farm family business have never been greater. The aging farm population is creating cavernous niches begging to be filled by creative visionaries who will go in dynamic new directions. As the industrial agriculture complex crumbles and our culture clambers for clean food, the countryside beckons anew with profitable farming opportunities.
A number of trends are driving the growth of the small farms. New technology and farming techniques make small farms more viable. Restaurant and consumer demand for farm-fresh and organic food has increased demand for small-farm output, as has heightened concern about food safety.
Marketing farm products also has become much easier. The Internet has greatly increased direct-to-consumer farm sales. And the number of farmers' markets continues to grow. There are more than 4,500 farmers' markets today, versus fewer than 400 in 1970.
With increasing food demand from a growing global middle class, small-farm opportunities will continue to grow in the coming years.
Self sufficiency in a time of great economic distress is fueling a return to North Americans taking charge of where their sustinence is grown. People are attending lectures and hands on workshops in abundant numbers to learn how to operate a producing farm.
Today the farm arguably represents America's premier non-industrial food production oasis.
Best Resource to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise:
You Can Farm by Joel Salatin: http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Farm-Entrepreneurs-Enterprise/dp/0963810928
While this book can be helpful to all farmers, it targets the wannabes, the folks who actually entertain notions of living, loving and learning on a piece of land. Anyone willing to dance with such a dream should be able to assess its assets and liabilities; its fantasies and realities. "Is it really possible for me?" is the burning question this book addresses.
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